Annual report
21st September 2023
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Spring Jumble Sale: Saturday 11 March 2023
25th January 2023
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Easter trail 2022
1st April 2022
Enjoy a pleasant walk over the North Downs following our Easter trail. The trail is some 4 miles in length starting at the top of Childsbridge Lane and heading to Magpie Bottom before making a return. Decorations are on route to provide some amusement. A little bit of smuggling history is...
We're supporting Kemsing Scouts QR donation code
7th November 2021
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Halloween trail to enjoy
22nd October 2021
Enjoy a spooky walk over the North Downs Follow our 5 kilometer Halloween trail, starting at the car park by the tennis courts and heading through some of our most haunted countryside before making a return. Keep an eye out for spooktacular decorations made by our youngsters. ...
Easter trail
31st March 2021
Enjoy a pleasant walk over the North Downs following our Easter trail. The trail is some 4 miles in length starting at the top of Childsbridge Lane and heading through the bluebell woods before making a return. Decorations are on route to provide some amusement. Full details are in the attached...
Gone Home
29th April 2020
Kevin Crawley, a dear friend of Scouting in Kemsing passed away peacefully on the evening of 26th March. Kevin and his wife Pat have a long history of being involved with Scouting. All their sons were Scouts and Venture Scouts at Kemsing some 30 plus years ago and Kevin became an active...
Jumble Sale @ St Ediths Hall
21st March 2020
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Cubs - first meeting in 2020
16th January 2020
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Beavers - first meeting in 2020
9th January 2020
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Kemsing School Christmas Fayre
30th November 2019
Kemsing School Christmas Fayre ...
A jumble sale milestone is reached
18th November 2019
There was a time when £1500 raised at a jumble was a good effort. Last year the group was pleased to hit the £1700 mark. Well this year thanks to all the hard work of our volunteers and some promotion on social media the total has exceeded the £2000 level. That is truly...
Jumble Sale @ St Ediths Hall
16th November 2019
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Remembrance Day Parade
10th November 2019
Remembrance Day Parade ...
Bonfire Night @ Kemsing School
1st November 2019
Lighting the Bonfire @ Kemsing School ...
Alien Invasion - Scientist badge
19th October 2019
Saturday 19th October - 9:30am till 4pm - The Alien Invasion at Lower Grange Farm - a day of bases around the theme of Aliens/Space where the Cubs will work together to solve puzzles, be creative, launch rockets and do all sorts of fun activities whilst earning their Scientist badge. ...
District Cub Adventure Day
5th October 2019
District Cub Adventure Day ...
Plender Hike - District Scout Challenge
28th September 2019
28th 15:00 - 29th September 2019 9:00...
Hike, Skills and Camp Challenge Award
21st September 2019
Hike, Skills and Camp Cub Challenge Award 21-22 September 2019 ...
AGM and family BBQ
28th June 2019
AGM and family BBQ on the Common Field. Please mark it in your diary and come along! Last years AGM Report is below........please click on the image to open ...
Kemsing Primary School Summer Fete
22nd June 2019
Start 1pm Featuring the 6th of course, with some tomahawks and other activities ...
Kent County Scouts recognise our growth in numbers
19th June 2019
Kent County Scouts recognise our growth in numbers. Thanks very much! ...
St Georges Day parade, Sevenoaks town
28th April 2019
1pm Actvities @ Lady Boswells (parent particpation) 2 - 2.15pm Stag Cinema Parade to Lady Boswells Actvities (parent particpation) 4.30pm End ...
Scouts Jumble Sale @ St Ediths
23rd March 2019
Huge Kemsing Scouts' Jumble and Quality Goods Sale. St Ediths Hall, Kemsing, Kent TN15 6TNA 1.30pm Sat 23rd March 2019 Clothes, Shoes, Bags, small items of furniture, Household items, Bric-a-brac, Antique, Retro, Electrical, Books, DVDs, Toys, China, Kitchen, Garden...
New HQ Update to Parents from GSL
14th March 2019
Dear parents and leaders, Some of you may have seen or heard that the planning application for the new HQ has been withdrawn. This is on the advice of Sevenoaks Planning Department, as they believe it would be rejected on the basis of restrictions imposed be to the site's location within...
Jumble Sale raised over £1600
10th November 2018
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Día de los Muertos @ the Cubs
29th October 2018
On Monday 29th October our Cub Pack explored the Mexican ‘Day of the Dead’ Festival, Día de los Muertos. With the help of some parent volunteers the young people made skull masks, designed their own skull decorations, made marigold flowers out of paper napkins and decorated biscuits. ...
Scouts raising £1,357.50 in the Big Sleep
12th October 2018
On Friday 12th October our Scout Troop took part in the Kent Scouts Big Cardboard Sleep. They were part of 105 young people and 24 leaders from Sevenoaks Scouts who swapped their beds for cardboard boxes, sleeping out to help raise money for Porchlight, our local homelessness charity. Taking up...
Climbing Beavers
4th October 2018
Thursday 4th October the Beaver Colony took on the rock climbing wall challenge at Lower Grange Farm, Kent Scouts HQ in Maidstone ...
Axe throwing at village fete
24th June 2018
The scouts ran axe throwing at the village fete this weekend. It was a great activity helping to raise awareness of the group and promote scouting. Many thanks to all those who helped make it happen. It was great to see so many scouts helping out in uniform both on the...
The Scout Association launches it's new branding
23rd May 2018
The Scout Association launches it's new branding You will notice that The Scout Association changed its logos, as of 15 May 2018, along with its typeface. Pease note that the World Badge has not changed. This new visual identity is part of a much wider rebranding that provides Groups up and down...
April - a good month for fundraising!!
8th May 2018
Hi All, April presented us with a couple of great opportunities for fundraising... The Amazing Lara Banks ran the Brighton Marathon - in aid of Kemsing Scouts. As Lara said befor her feat: 'My son has been a member of Kemsing beavers and now cubs for quite some time. They do so much there for...
Donation made by Kemsing Scouts
8th April 2018
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It's a Jumble out there!
15th March 2018
First Jumble of 2018 completed and another rip roaring success! Thanks Guys! We raised another £1200 and had a loada fun doing it as usual. The next date is booked - 10th November! Put it in you diary - we look to seeing you there and as ever look forward to receiving contributions and any...
The 6th takes on the might of OSM!
24th January 2018
The 6th takes on the might of OSM! Online Scout Manager (OSM) is a record management system designed by Scouts, for Scouts. It is widely used across the UK, and indeed in other parts of the world too, and is a fantastic tool to help leaders maintain records of the young people, their...
Welcome to the Jumble!
13th November 2017
Phew! What a jumble!? Thanks to all for supporting, donating and shopping at this weekends jumble. With all of your help Kemsing Scouts raised an STAGGERING £2,133.92 profit on the day, with more to come in from online sales and 'cash4clothes' from what was left over Our next jumble sale is...
Scouts Oct 17 Hammock Camp
30th October 2017
Enjoyable camp, Scouts were great! The Scouts enjoyed an overnight event to try out the new hammocks and make the most of the generous offer from the St Clere Estate to use their land for our activities. Having walked to the site from the HQ, the Scouts set up individual hammocks and tarps -...
End of the Summer hols....start of the NEW Scouting year!!
4th September 2017
Hi All, No need to be sad that the end of the summer break means the end of your adventures. Scouts, Cubs and Beavers are back! Beavers will start back on September 7th Cubs will start back on September 11th Scouts will start back on September 15th A date for your diary - our AGM will...
Race Night a runaway success!!
20th March 2017
Thanks to everyone's help on Saturday for the role you played making the Race Night a success!!! We hope you managed to back a winner!? Thanks to everyone's efforts! Who new fundraising could be so fun!? What a great way of raising £1,250 for the new hut! ...
Gone Home - A Sad Farewell to a Fellow Scout, Bert Trattell
20th March 2017
Wow! 81 years in scouting how many of us can match that? Bert joined the Scout movement in 1936 as a very young Scout in the 13th Lewisham South Group. He remained with this Group as a Scout until he was evacuated to the West County during the war. However, as it was war time, and he had...
Another Great Jumble!
12th March 2017
Many thanks to one and all for the great help in organising, supporting and clearing up for the Jumble Sale this weekend! Although perhaps a little quieter that the last sales it looks like we have still raised in excess of £1,200 towards the new hut!! A massive result! Looks to thank as...
'OLD HUT' GETS A FACELIFT!
15th July 2016
Whilst plans for the new hut move steadily forward we are all very thankful for all who attended the recent working party to help refresh the much loved 'old hut'. Special shout out to Andy Ainsworth (a Dad of one of the Beavers) and his brother Eddie who painted the inside of the hut! It looks...
Volunteer Day - @ the Hut
10th July 2016
10:30 - 14:30 Please offer some of your time to help keep the hut upright (or at least close to upright!) and functional until we have the means to replace it. Please come along if you can spare even a little time on Sunday. There's lots to do including something for everyone - you might...
2016 Annual Report
30th June 2016
The 2016 Annual Report is now available. 2016 6th Sevenoaks (Kemsing) Annual Report v.2.pdf ...
Cubs Win The Olympics!
14th June 2016
Congratulations to Kemsing Cubs for WINNING the Sevenoaks District Inter-Pack Athletics Olympics tonight!!! The boys were presented with the District Cup after scoring the highest number of points over eight events. Here's a couple of photos. We'll try to get some more soon - in the scenes of...
June Newsletter
11th June 2016
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2016 St George's Day
24th April 2016
2016 St George's Day Sunday 24th April saw a clutch of Beavers, Cubs and Scouts from the 6th join in the District St George's Day Parade and Service at St Nicholas' Church. With a theme of 'Celebration' seven budding stars of stage and screen from our members delivered a wonderful sketch to the...
